COURTESY OF NEW YORK NEWSDAY.
Among other surprises, the chapel is fitted with a second "backup" stove for burning ballots in case the fisrt stove is unable to fulfill its duties.
Author: Jimmy Akin
Jimmy was born in Texas, grew up nominally Protestant, but at age 20 experienced a profound conversion to Christ. Planning on becoming a Protestant seminary professor, he started an intensive study of the Bible. But the more he immersed himself in Scripture the more he found to support the Catholic faith, and in 1992 he entered the Catholic Church. His conversion story, "A Triumph and a Tragedy," is published in Surprised by Truth. Besides being an author, Jimmy is the Senior Apologist at Catholic Answers, a contributing editor to Catholic Answers Magazine, and a weekly guest on "Catholic Answers Live."
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…in case the STOVE doesn’t work?….how many moving parts does a stove have, anyway?
I read where there was a “smoke augmenter” to make the white smoke whiter and the dark smoke darker. It’s kind of like have the Cardinals vote using a laptop with a web interface and then producing the vote on parchment in some archaic font.